Eric worked with Pete Beltran throughout the 1980s to stop General Motors from closing down its last car manufacturing plant on the West Coast and firing 5,000 mostly Black and Latino well-paid union workers. Pete worked at the GM...

Today we played excerpts of some of our best Voices radio shows of the past year. Here's the list. In between the excerpts, Eric discussed the Strategy Center's new campaign, Fight for the Soul of the Cities, and asked...

I speak with Patricia Bauman, president and founder of the Bauman Family Foundation. Patricia and the Bauman Foundation have funded social justice organizations for over 25 years. Patricia is also co-chair of the Board of the Brennan Center for...

I’m very pleased to share with you my recent conversation with Mumia Abu Jamal. In it, Mumia and I continued our ongoing discussions about black liberation struggles and the critical importance of teaching the history and theory of those...

On  Tuesday, March 5, 2013 two events happened of diametrically opposed moral and historical significance—the end of the life of the great world leader Hugo Chavez and the death of the Los Angeles mayoral elections. In between yawns and “oh,...

I’m very pleased to have back on the show, Becky Dennison and Pete White, co-directors of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, known as LA CAN. LA CAN builds leadership among Downtown LA’s very low-income and often homeless community members,...